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- From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
- Subject: Bear's Four-Word Story
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.042847.18575@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:28:47 GMT
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-
- <Bear gave me the following assignment.
-
- rube
- pollyannaish
- potato salad
- mad libs
-
- He didn't say it had to be an all-dialogue story--I did that on my own. I
- hope that it's readable...>
-
-
- "Okay, Royce, from you we need an adjective."
-
- "Royce, you got anything in the fridge? I'm starving."
-
- "Pollyannaish. Just a sec, Arela, I'll check."
-
- "Arela, an item of food."
-
- "I'll wait and see what Royce finds."
-
- "Sorry, nothing but potato salad."
-
- "Potato salad it is, then."
-
- "Okay, Ram, from you a noun."
-
- "Ummm...ruby. No, wait, rube."
-
- "Can he change his mind? You wouldn't let me earlier."
-
- "That's because you were being such a pain about it, Denzil. Just write it
- down."
-
- "Aquilina? A verb."
-
- "Menstruate. And before anybody asks, no, it is not that time of the month."
-
- "Nobody was going to ask."
-
- "Yeah, I bet."
-
- "Name of a person in this room, Royce."
-
- "Aquilina."
-
- "Oh, yeah, sure, pick on me. Go ahead."
-
- "Jesus Christ, 'Lina. What if it's nice?"
-
- "That's Aquilina to you. Only my stepdad calls me Aquilina, just 'cause he
- knows I hate it."
-
- "C'mon, guys, let's get on with it."
-
- "Arela? A town."
-
- "Tbilisi."
-
- "Where the hell's that?"
-
- "Georgian Republic, in what used to be Russia."
-
- "Can you spell it for me?"
-
- "T-B-I-L-I-S-I."
-
- "Thanks. Ram, a river."
-
- "A river? I don't remember this on any of them."
-
- "So I made up my own. A river?"
-
- "Say the Ob."
-
- "You had your turn, Arela."
-
- "No, that sounds good. The Ob it is."
-
- "Aquilina, a colour."
-
- "Blue. Don't anyone say it."
-
- "Is that how you're feeling, 'Lina? Ow! Hey, let go!"
-
- "You fucking asked for it, Royce."
-
- "Let him go, Aquilina, and let's get on with this. It's starting to sound
- cool."
-
- "Thank you, Arela. Royce, if you're finished checking your hair, can we have
- a place?"
-
- "An elevator."
-
- "What kind of stupid place is an elevator?"
-
- "It says you can do whatever you want within the category."
-
- "It'll probably sound stupid."
-
- "You don't think 'menstruate' is going to sound stupid?"
-
- "Arela, a fruit."
-
- "An apple."
-
- "My God, am I hearing things? I thought for sure she'd say kumquat, or bok
- choy, or something. But apple?"
-
- "Bok choy's not a fruit, Aquilina. It's a vegetable."
-
- "Oh, excuse me for living."
-
- "Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning, Aquilina?"
-
- "Fuck you, Ram."
-
- "No, I'm serious. Is something wrong?"
-
- "Yeah, something's wrong. Jamie's moving out, that's what's wrong. Fuck.
- Three years, and she tosses it away like it doesn't mean a thing. Says she
- really likes the guy she's been seeing, and that he's weirded out by me, so
- she's going straight. Can you believe it? Jamie going straight? She'll get
- tired of male libido real quick, and come crawling back in no time."
-
- "Ram? A month?"
-
- "June at the latest. They're planning the wedding already, and I'm not going
- to be invited. She's not even going to tell me where it is. Fuck that--I'll
- call her sister and find out. Hulse'll tell me. And I'll gate-crash the
- thing in my best bulldyke leather and chains and carry her back over my
- shoulder and fuck her until she comes to her senses."
-
- "Aquilina, please? Ram, a month?"
-
- "Ah--June. Shit, Aquilina. You're worth twelve of her anyway. It's not
- worth getting worked up over. If she loves you, she'll come back. If she
- didn't, maybe it's better that it's over."
-
- "Um, Aquilina? An occupation?"
-
- "Hell, if she comes back I'll turn her out. She'll have to go work as a
- fucking street sweeper. You write that down, Denzil--a street sweeper. It's
- almost enough to make me start smoking again. Anyone got a cig I could bum?"
-
- "Sorry, Aquilina. I don't think smoking will solve anything, either."
-
- "Royce, a phobia."
-
- "How about androphobia? Fear of men?"
-
- "Fuck you, Royce."
-
- "I wasn't talking about you. Geez, some people are sensitive."
-
- "Alena, a question."
-
- "Hmmm...how about, 'What place does it have in the meaning of life?'"
-
- "Ha, ha--that's heavy."
-
- "I don't think that'll fit in the space I left for it."
-
- "What, you wanted something more like, 'Who is it?' or, 'Got a light?'"
-
- "Well, just write it in the margin or something."
-
- "Ram, how about a date?"
-
- "I didn't know he was your type, Denzil."
-
- "You know what I mean."
-
- "How about...May 16th, 1993."
-
- "Hey, isn't that--"
-
- "Aquilina's birthday next year. Yeah, it is."
-
- "I can never remember her birthday."
-
- "Okay, Aquilina--a small object. Aquilina?"
-
- "Huh? Oh. An ashtray."
-
- "We've got a one-track mind, here."
-
- "Shut up, Royce."
-
- "Royce? A noun."
-
- "Any noun? A pack of cigarettes."
-
- "Are we almost done?"
-
- "Just a few more. Arela, a verb."
-
- "Meditate."
-
- "Hey--it rhymes with menstruate. Coincidence? I think not."
-
- "Ram, an adjective."
-
- "Beautiful."
-
- "And finally--Aquilina, an adverb."
-
- "Never."
-
- "What?"
-
- "Never. That's an adverb, isn't it, Arela? And your question, 'What place
- does it have in the meaning of life'? None. No place whatsofuckingever."
-
- "Where are you going?"
-
- "I don't know. Maybe the Pinson Bridge. I hear that's a good choice this
- time of year."
-
- "Shit! Come back! Damn, she's gone down the back stairs. Arela, Denzil,
- come with me--we'll see if we can catch her. Royce, you call 911 and see if
- they can at least get an ambulance or something out there, or a suicide
- counselor or something."
-
- "Suicide? Shit!"
-
- "Yeah."
-
- "Doesn't anyone want to hear my mad lib?"
-
- "Not now, Denzil."
-
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Looking for "October's Baby")
- "Lucille was secretly thrilled when Norman sucked her toaster."
- ---B. Kliban
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